by Tdarcos » Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:00 am
pinback wrote:Tdarcos wrote:You still haven't answered the question. Since this OWL certification you're talking about is not the usual and customary one most people refer to, what does it mean?
Even if I explained it, you still wouldn't get it,
That's a cop-out, you know it is, and more than that, it's an automatic admission on your part that you can't prove what you claim, plus you know you can't prove it, and rather than simply admit it and accept you're wrong, you try to "blame the victim" for their supposed lack of intelligence instead of admitting you have no response.
This is a slimy and disreputable way of making a point. It's done quite frequently by some minority figures who want to make a point they know is clearly erroneous or unsustainable, and to keep that point from correctly being attacked, they will accuse their opponent (of a different race) of being "racist." It's a brilliant tactic, because it's unanswerable: claim you're not racist and you sound like Richard Nixon claiming he wasn't a crook. So it's used to silence dissent and give the person who can't respond a way to shut down the conversation in a way that silences their critics whose point may be valid. And it's as disgusting a debating trick as yesterday's garbage.
or you would reply with ten more pages of unrelated, factually incorrect horseshit.
I never do that much. But look, proceed to make your claim, if you really can, and I will take time, if I disagree with what you say, to make a response not exceeding (approximately) ten lines (the BBS software renders in editing mode differently from display mode, so it may run over by a line or two.)
Just chalk it up to "one more thing everyone here understands except you".
No, I'll chalk it off to something you know is wrong, know that you have no proof or evidence to argue against the point, and that knowing this you don't want to admit it, so rather than concede I am right, you simply claim I can't understand it.
Look, I have reason to believe I'm brighter than you think I am. One time my sister asked me what my IQ was. I said that the last time I was tested, I was 12 and my Verbal was 130 and my written was 95, for a net of 115. She said that was impossible. "My IQ is 140 and you're lots smarter than I am."
So let's try it. Present your evidence and to the extent I disagree, I will take the extra time to do a very short response. Presuming you have any evidence, which your continued deflection indicates strongly that
you do not.
[quote="pinback"][quote="Tdarcos"]You still haven't answered the question. Since this OWL certification you're talking about is not the usual and customary one most people refer to, what does it mean?[/quote]
Even if I explained it, you still wouldn't get it,[/quote]
That's a cop-out, you know it is, and more than that, it's an automatic admission on your part that you can't prove what you claim, plus you know you can't prove it, and rather than simply admit it and accept you're wrong, you try to "blame the victim" for their supposed lack of intelligence instead of admitting you have no response.
This is a slimy and disreputable way of making a point. It's done quite frequently by some minority figures who want to make a point they know is clearly erroneous or unsustainable, and to keep that point from correctly being attacked, they will accuse their opponent (of a different race) of being "racist." It's a brilliant tactic, because it's unanswerable: claim you're not racist and you sound like Richard Nixon claiming he wasn't a crook. So it's used to silence dissent and give the person who can't respond a way to shut down the conversation in a way that silences their critics whose point may be valid. And it's as disgusting a debating trick as yesterday's garbage.
[quote] or you would reply with ten more pages of unrelated, factually incorrect horseshit.[/quote]
I never do that much. But look, proceed to make your claim, if you really can, and I will take time, if I disagree with what you say, to make a response not exceeding (approximately) ten lines (the BBS software renders in editing mode differently from display mode, so it may run over by a line or two.)
[quote]Just chalk it up to "one more thing everyone here understands except you".[/quote]
No, I'll chalk it off to something you know is wrong, know that you have no proof or evidence to argue against the point, and that knowing this you don't want to admit it, so rather than concede I am right, you simply claim I can't understand it.
Look, I have reason to believe I'm brighter than you think I am. One time my sister asked me what my IQ was. I said that the last time I was tested, I was 12 and my Verbal was 130 and my written was 95, for a net of 115. She said that was impossible. "My IQ is 140 and you're lots smarter than I am."
So let's try it. Present your evidence and to the extent I disagree, I will take the extra time to do a very short response. Presuming you have any evidence, which your continued deflection indicates strongly that [i]you do not[/i].